well, my pooper scooper guy left a note for all his clients, he is not taking the poop to the dump anymore, its not cost effective . so he will be leaving the poop in a bag either in the garbage can or near the garage.. so now after a year of him taking it, i now either let him keep picking it up for $22 a week but leaving it at my door or i can pick up the poop and bring it to the dump ourselves.... so i made the decision to pick up the poop myself, and bring it to the dump.... so i save a $88 a month..

Wow that is a lot. How many times a week was he picking it up? There are 2 companies out by me that charge $9 & $10 once a week to clean poop for 3 dogs. They will take it with them for an additional cost.

he charged $22 to come out twice a week to pick it up and carry it away..

i cant feed raw to jesse as she is allergic to chicken and turkey and now probably beef, as she gets inflamed and chews her feet if i give her beef now.. so i have to stick to fish, elk, bison, stuff like that..

the poop turns to white powder after a couple of days, when i had the dogs on raw by the end of the week the poop was a white crushable powder pile.

It starts crumbling immediatly and is gone in a matter of a day or so. No smells either. Somebody ( me) forgot to let Munkee out the other night & I don't know if he couldn't wake me up or if he didn't try ( I always wake up to him so I think he didn't try) and he pooped on the floor. It was impossible to pick up, I had to sweep it. It started to crumble as I picked it up.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Like 2 seconds! Seriously, on days when Wally gets only his food and no treats or anything (since I still give him regular dog treats and stuff) if you sneezed it would blow away it's that dry and crumbly.

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i was before i hired him.. then tonight i am thinking,, all my dogs since he has been coming have had bouts of the runs, coughing, which they never had before i hired him.. then i realized, if he is stepping in other dogs crap and coming to my house he is transferring poop from other dogs to here... my dogs never had the runs, coughing, not eating nothing prior to him coming...... so its a good thing. i have to go out and buy a scooper so that i can resume picking it up ..

We do too. I'm not married, so I guess we'll share poop hunt duties until then.

I guess I never knew that poop-scoop services really existed! Pay people to pick up your dog poop... We thought about paying our neighbor boy a few buck to clean up and decided that would just be plain lazy. We thought about it, though.

it was great for a while, but then i started thinking, why do my dogs get sick alot more now? didnt dawn on me that the pooper man could be cross contaminating my yard if he stepped in crap at someone elses house and then walked into my yard.... i bleached the entire yard yesterday after work to try to kill whatever was living there..

yep, they do exist, some charge more per dog, some charge per how big your yard is that the dog uses, some just charge a flat fee..

Maryellen wrote:it was great for a while, but then i started thinking, why do my dogs get sick alot more now? didnt dawn on me that the pooper man could be cross contaminating my yard if he stepped in crap at someone elses house and then walked into my yard.... i bleached the entire yard yesterday after work to try to kill whatever was living there..

yep, they do exist, some charge more per dog, some charge per how big your yard is that the dog uses, some just charge a flat fee..

For a while I was going to start one of these companies. What I learned was that the shoes and the pooper scooper needed to be thoroughly disinfected in between yards. I'm wondering why he didn't do this.

And yes there are a lot of people who want this done and who will pay a good amount for it.

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." -Anatole France